Re: yum is installing both i386 and x86_64 for everything

From: Tom Horsley <tom horsley att net>

To: fedora-test-list redhat com

Subject: Re: yum is installing both i386 and x86_64 for everything

Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 18:02:16 -0400

On Tue, 22 May 2007 18:56:29 +0200 (CEST)
Adam Pribyl <pribyl lowlevel cz> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2007, Neal Becker wrote:
>
> > I have several x86_64 with current rawhide. If I do
> > yum install blah
> >
> > It will install both blah.i386 and blah.x86_64.
>
> This only happens if you have both i386 and x86_64 repos enabled. This is
> not default configuration. If you enable only x86_64 then this repo only
> contains i386 packages for libs and apps that are necessary also on x86_64
> platform.
Actually I have a different problem. I was just fixing up some breakage
in my f7t4 partition by manually installing some things and if I do
something like:
yum install libwhatever.so.1
it only installs the i386 library even though I wanted both. Fortunately
the output from that install allows me to determine that the library
is in the rpm named whatever-libs so I can then:
yum install whatever-libs.x86_64
and get the missing 64 bit version.